The Economic and Cyber Crime Combating Department under the Ministry of Interior Qatar released a statement. Statement discloses the detention of 64 cyber fraudsters belonging to various nationalities.
According to the department, their suspicious activities were under the scanner of intelligence agencies for a long time.
The Department of Economic and Cyber Crime arrested these individuals affter examination of reliable evidence.
These criminals hailed from various nationalities and were robbing innocent people . They had been impersonating different investment companies.
After impersonating investment companies, they established counterfeit businesses to grab the money .
They used various tactics, including AI-enabled software, to commit anti-social activities.
The main intention of their activities was to take money out of the country of Qatar.
On arrest When these fraudsters were confronted with facts , all the of them admitted that the allegations were true .
The amount of four million Qatari riyals and currencies of many other foreign countries were also recovered from their custody by the department .
They used all of the amount mentioned above of Qatari and foreign currency for fraudulent activities .
They made this huge amount of money from their illegal activities and then reused it to expand their criminal network across many other parts of Qatar.
After the arrest and recovery of the case property, the public prosecution has been instructed to initiate necessary legal action against them . Arrested cyber criminals and recovered items were also handed over to the public prosecution.
The public prosecution department now has to proceed further according to legal law provisions.
The Economic and Cyber Crime Combating Department also warned all those who are doing any fraudulent activities.
The Ministry of Interior has already told all internal law enforcement agencies for strict action against the culprits.